"I am so sorry, Barry." Victor said. Barry looked up - tears still rolling down his face. "I really am. I don't know what I was thinking - killing you. No, I would never want to do that. I'm not like the other criminals who you have locked down in the pipeline." Barry suddenly stood up shocked.
"Of course you knew about that! You hacked us, didn't you" Barry said, angrily. "You must be glad I can't faze through whatever you are made of."
"Yes, I did hack you. Well kind of." Victor replied, all too calmly. "I am connected to every single computer on earth including the bat computer actually." Victor smiled. "After I woke up all the STAR laboratories computers were already connected to my body. No matter if the lab itself was no longer in use. It's not something I can control. So if you are going to blame anyone for me knowing these facts, blame my father. It's all his programing."
"Victor, why did you rob the technology store. I mean you seem like a really nice guy. Vic Stone wouldn't do that, then why did you? You are Vic Stone, you always have been and always will be."
"You already told yourself the answer to your own question. You're looking for the footballer and I'm not the footballer… not anymore. I never wanted to be like this, but what else was I going to do?No one else was going to hire me. And I didn't want my father's help. Not after what he did. He got me into this mess and he will not be the one to get me out. He uses me. He has his whole life."
"Whatever is wrong with you. We can help you. Together we can make you better."
"Oh, you just wish it was that easy but it's not. I don't need fixed, not in the sense you're talking about."
"I'm confused. Then what do you mean. Maybe we can help and you just don't know it yet."
"I… I wasn't meant to be like this. Me and my mum we… We were in an accident at my father's lab. My mum died and I should have to but my father was just too damn stubborn to let me go. He gave me all this shit and turned me into a lab rat. My fucking bastard of a father made me into a lab rat when I am a person. To make matters worse I became his fucking lab rat."
"Please watch your language, Victor. There is no need to speak to me like that. I haven't done anything wrong to hurt you. I'm sure your father meant well with what he did."
"First, you knocked me out with a tranq dart that almost killed me. And second, you know nothing about my father. If he had gone to my game then none of this mess would have happened. You don't know what it is like. What I have been through. You never will."
"Don't you ever say that to me again. I know perfectly well what you have been through. I went through it myself. MY dad murdered my mum. My par… Joe wasn't always there for me. Thought of me as a wimp so he was overprotective of me. Later I got a job as a CSI. I can't relate to you there but…"
"Yeah, that's right. You got the job you wanted. You got to be a CSI. But you bet I denia getting What I want and yoz right. My dad didn't want me to be a footballer."
"Well as I was saying I got a job. A good one. I don't know how long later but an explosion at STAR Labs happened, caused by the head of it. I went into a coma and was not going to make it, but that same scientist saved my life. At first, I didn't want to accept their help so I left. But my powers began to show and I had to go back to get their help and well… you know the rest."
"I… I am so sorry. I didn't know but still you take off your costume at the end of the day and go out as if you were a normal civilian. No one gives you a second glance. I can't! I have no costume to take off. I don't even wear clothes anymore. In fact right now… not that I want to admit it but I'm naked. NAKED! I can't go out in public. Not without people questioning what I am doing. I have no one who cares about me. No one wants anything to do with me. My girlfriend broke up with me once she saw what I had become. Just after she has said 'no matter what happens I will always love you for who you are, not what you look like'. She was scared of me. She called the police as soon as I knocked on her door so I ran away. I guess you're going to take me to your prison now. I mean all I want is to be human again. Or at least look human again. Is looking human again too much to ask." He slammed on his bed so hard that he broke the restraints that kept him from escaping going anywhere. He then marched over and picked Barry up by the scruff of his collar and placed against the wall.
"Is it!" Victor shouted at Barry before falling to his knees, hands on his lap, tears coming out of his last remaining human eye. Barry leaned down and lifted up his chin and looked into his eyes.
"Hey, it's okay. We're here for you." Barry said softly.
"Causes that's your job!" Victor said, turning his head away from him.
"Victor, this is not that type of job. I don't have to do what I do. I can do what I want with my life and my powers but I chose to do this. To help them stress less. I can help your life be easier too. I can even give you a job. You just have to be willing to let me help you." Victor looked up at him and started crying into Barry's chest as he slowly lifted him back onto his feet. He patted him on his rock hard, shiny, metallic back and didn't seem affected by it. Comforting him, telling him that he will be okay. After a long while he brought Victor out of the hug and put his hands on his shoulders and looked into his eyes.
"Now, you sit back down on your bed and I will go and get the others, okay."
"Yeah." Victor replied, wiping his face. He then sat down on the bed and looked out the window while Barry got the rest of Team Flash.